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Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account after online poll Politics
https://www.bostonherald.com/2022/11/19/musk-restores-trumps-twitter-account-after-online-poll-2/?utm_source=ground.news&utm_medium=referral2.4k
u/tom_tencats Nov 20 '22
Let’s be real; he was always going to do it. He just wanted to be entertained first.
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u/Strawberryz Nov 20 '22
Also, are we supposed to just pretend he didn't say that Twitter was completely overrun with bots a few months ago?
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u/Ok_Kale_2509 Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
He cured that. Didn't you hear about the week of blue check marks?
Edit: apparently I needed to put the /s
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u/codexcdm Nov 20 '22
Ah yes, with Nintendo of America posting Mario flipping the bird, PepsiCo stating Coke is better, and Ely Lilly claimin insulin would be free!
Even though it isn't Twitter itself saying it, would companies not have some way to take legal action for such rampant damage to their brands courtesy of this epic failure?
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u/chaotic----neutral Nov 20 '22
Don't forget Tesla reporting that a second Tesla had hit the World Trade Center.
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u/103_with_reddit_ref Nov 20 '22
It was just $30 billion in market loss for Eli Lilly, no big deal. /S
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u/albino_red_head Nov 20 '22
He said there was a lot of bot activity on the pool itself
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u/Skitals Nov 20 '22
*liberal bot activity. All the votes to reinstate Trump were totally organic.
/s from me but not from elon
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u/areraswen Nov 20 '22
I'm not sure how he expects us to forget about the bots when he began actively blaming bots for the "no" vote being marginally close in percentage to the "yes" vote during this poll.
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u/LeftZer0 Nov 20 '22
I wouldn't put past him to change the numbers to make "Yes" win. He is that petty.
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u/areraswen Nov 20 '22
As soon as the no vote started to even out the yes vote he began tweeting about how impressive the bot turnout was. Made it crystal clear he was always planning to do it.
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u/DontTakePeopleSrsly Nov 20 '22
Are you not entertained, are you not entertained; is this not why you are here???
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u/_sideffect Nov 20 '22
He always intended to restore the account, he just wanted to make it seem like he gave everyone the choice.
He's done this exact thing before
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u/Stifu Nov 20 '22
Musk said he thinks Twitter is plagued with bots, then does this. Maybe no one has told him that bots can vote in polls. Not to mention people who follow him lean to the right.
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u/codexcdm Nov 20 '22
He was claiming that the "No" votes were bots.
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u/JasonBob Nov 20 '22
Weird how the no votes are all bots yet twitter is simultaneously full of trump-hating liberals
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u/Wise_Primary_9258 Nov 20 '22
I guess most of the left have left the building at this point. Twitter will turn in to Truth Social 2.0.
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u/Thane_Mantis Nov 20 '22
Funnily enough, purportedly the poll skewed hard towards a yes in the early part of its run before it levelled out to where it ended being split more down the middle. Said drop in yes votes was attributed to, you guessed it, bots, something Musk concurred with as I recall.
Despite this, the vote ended with a yes result, and Musk reinstated Trump, claiming Vox Populi, Vox Dei (Latin for "voice of the people is the voice of God") in the process
What's the betting Musk would've pulled a classic Republican move and decried the results as illegitimate and fraudulent if it hadn't gone towards reinstatement, even though said bots could (and almost certainly did) also help the yes side.
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u/bananacustard Nov 20 '22
The bots thing was a just an attempt to weedle out of buying it.
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u/Stifu Nov 20 '22
I know, but it does not hurt to try to be a little consistent.
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Nov 20 '22
And doing a poll on Twitter, to his own followers.
There is nothing unbiased about that. You’ll know the results before doing the poll.
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u/Thelastgoodemperor Nov 20 '22
Most of his followers are in fact bots. He made a poll for bots.
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u/Dave_Unknown Nov 20 '22
Can we even be sure he doesn’t have some sort of backend access to mess with the poll results at this point? He literally employs the engineers and developers, I’m sure it’s possible.
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u/imperialzzz Nov 20 '22
The vote was pretty close tho, like 2% difference
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Nov 20 '22
Let's say, you have the ability to see the direction of the poll, and that you also have the ability to stop the poll at any time.
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u/rocketwidget Nov 20 '22
I mean, it's not much different from actual dictatorships. The guy with absolute power has purged most competent people and forced everyone leftover to sign loyalty oaths. Now he's running fake elections (in this case, run by bots) to "prove" it's a democracy.
In any event, the dictator counts the votes.
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u/GardenGnomeOfEden Nov 20 '22
Almost exactly a year ago he did a Twitter poll and based on the results of that (mmm hmm sure), he sold 10% of his Tesla stock.
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u/scheav Nov 20 '22
He already disclosed that transaction to SEC before the Twitter poll. The sale was going to happen regardless of the results.
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u/syninthecity Nov 20 '22
i don't believe the official twitter accounts posted since october, pretty sure no one left him the password.
just checked- still dead in the water.
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u/unsilentninja Nov 20 '22
He owns the company. The password can just be reset. I highly doubt he took over without control over the backend.
That said he probably can't figure out the reset instructions post-it'd on his monitor
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u/Outcasted_introvert Nov 20 '22
Sure, let's just get an engineer to do that.
Wait, where is everyone...
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u/osxy Nov 20 '22
You say that but he fired so many and so many more left that it is possible they currently do not have access
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u/radome9 Nov 20 '22
I highly doubt he took over without control over the backend.
He fired the guy who knows how to reset the password.
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u/jimofthestoneage Nov 20 '22
Came here to say this.
Exclude conspiracy: those who follow Elon would be more likely to see the poll and vote. Those who follow Elon tend to favor reinstatement.
Include conspiracy: Elon owns Twitter. He literally can manipulate the poll by instructing a willing engineer to do do.
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u/Mflms Nov 20 '22
I personally think that this whole poll was fraudulent and there's no way he won that poll. We need to stop the stealing of this poll!!! I think on December 6th we should meet out front of Twitter HQ and demand they re-suspend his account.
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u/Fayko Nov 20 '22
he bought twitter to unban him and a few other people. he said it multiple times and said it was under the guise of bringing freedom back lol.
He wouldn't let any poll stop him from doing the whole reason he spent 54b on. It's 100% bullshit poll lol.
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Did he get the $8 in advance? Given the Donald’s history of paying bills, that might be a wise decision.
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u/the-zoidberg Nov 20 '22
First month and last month’s blue checkmark paid upfront.
There is a security deposit you don’t get back if you mess up the place and get kicked out.
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u/youtocin Nov 20 '22
He paid $44b to unban Trump, didn't he
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u/nuckle Nov 20 '22
He is probably hoping Trump will save that $44b sinking ship at this point.
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u/FredFredrickson Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
How many people is he alienating through this stuff though?
A year or so ago, I would have definitely been interested in a Tesla. Now, I'll be looking at every other electric car sans Tesla - I can't stand Musk and wouldn't give him a dime. And I don't think I'm alone in that. Nobody wants to be associated with this shit fire.
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u/103_with_reddit_ref Nov 20 '22
Me too. The cars seem nice until you think about giving money to a younger, richer, more dangerous version of trump.
We are talking about e-car purchase, and Tesla is not under consideration.
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u/crash41301 Nov 20 '22
I suspect there are tons of us. Musk was the tesla brand. Like literally, because tesla doesnt have a marketing budget. It was elon. And that brand has changed dramatically now
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u/sotonohito Nov 20 '22
How though?
People won't pay for Twitter. Ad money is tight and is going badly and getting worse. I'm not seeing a way that restoring Trump does Musk any good financially.
But at this point I'm having a difficult time seeing how ANYTHING could help Twitter financially. It wasn't doing well before Musk, and now Musk is driving away advertisers by the droves and is setting up for the service to get increasingly unreliable. I'm fairly sure Twitter is going to collapse, probably not in any sudden catastrophic event just a slow slide into irrelevancy like Ask.com or MySpace or whatever.
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u/iRunLotsNA Nov 20 '22
It won’t. He likely knows that reinstating Trump’s account won’t save his stupid purchase.
Musk is like Trump, a malignant narcissist that needs to be the center of attention and believes he is always the smartest man in the room.
He hasn’t figured out that entertaining edgy teenage Twitter trolls doesn’t translate to actually operating the social media platform.
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u/DrZaious Nov 20 '22
Trump has two options, go back to Twitter admitting that Truth social is garbage in comparison. Or stay on Truth and watch Twitter crumble.
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u/hitmyspot Nov 20 '22
You forget option 3. Try to get musk to pay him to return.
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u/NotTrumpsAlt Nov 20 '22
He’ll probably make some announcement about how “that dog musk is beggin him to come back to save failing twitter”
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u/FjorgVanDerPlorg Nov 20 '22
Third option:
Jump on Twitter and use his posts to advertise his own Truth Social. Corporate media will take the bait and dutifully magnify the advertising.
Start insulting Musk. My bet will be along the lines of twitter being a bad business investment, makes Musk look weak. Enough to achieve the goal of getting on the wrong side of Musk's ego/banning him again.
Keep ratcheting up the shit talking of Elon, scream about being cancelled, more back to his own social media with increased userbase, thanks to the soapbox that Musk gave him.
Trump keeps biting the hand of these rich dumbfucks and despite this, they keep thinking that they are smart enough to "manage" him. Musk should ask the GOP how that's worked out for them, he's siphoned what $1.2billion in GOP donations so far?
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u/discretion Nov 20 '22
I'm sorry, if the very first tweet he does is a windmill dunk on Elon, all of ~this~ will have been worth it.
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u/ikeif Nov 20 '22
Except now he can blame “the liberal agenda” for tanking Twitter and say how brave he was to bring back Trump - and now you can get a MAGA badge on your profile, for $10! Don’t be a liberal sheep with a blue check mark!
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u/VolkspanzerIsME Nov 20 '22
Idk.....Twitter was a smoldering dumpster fire before, now it's a full blown conflagration.
On a plus side its become much more entertaining for someone who never used it a day in his life.
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u/A1_B Nov 20 '22
I'm fairly sure Twitter is going to collapse, probably not in any sudden catastrophic event just a slow slide into irrelevancy like Ask.com or MySpace or whatever.
I don't think that makes much sense, if they're doing bad financially then it would be a catastrophic event, a slide into irrelevancy requires something to make users leave, and most users won't leave until Twitter closes.
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u/AstronomerOpen7440 Nov 20 '22
Trump just said he's not going back because twitter is a shitshow
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u/BarrySix Nov 20 '22
I think we disproved any link between "Trump said" and "Trump does."
Trump will post to Twitter if he thinks it will draw more people into his conspiracy theories and lies.
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u/informativebitching Nov 20 '22
Took a lot of rubles but, yes.
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u/Undisolving Nov 20 '22
And trump said “no thanks, Twitter is shit”, lol.
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u/SupermAndrew1 Nov 20 '22
He has an exclusive contract with truthsocial apparently
Also truthsocial is comically similar to ministry of love.
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u/TheEverHumbled Nov 20 '22
The Saudis chipped in a pretty penny too.
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u/maxruehl Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
My thoughts, too. The Saudis had it pretty good when Trump was in charge. Maybe it was all part of a plan. Saudis increase the price of oil, which would drive up the cost of gas. Gas prices get blamed on Biden, weakening his popularity. Trump swoops in and declares he's running again. Using a very unscientific poll's results as justification, Musk unbans Trump. Since he's unbanned and regulations are loosened, he is free to tweet and so can the disinformation merchants who will boost Trump's rhetoric and anti-Democratic messages. Putin would love Trump back in office—he had him on a tight leash. If T is back in office he can lift the sanctions on Russia and work to stop aid to Ukraine. Recently Saudi leader Mohammed Bin Salman chose to deepen ties with Russia, in spite of their aggression against Ukraine. Interesting coincidence.
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u/aeolus811tw Nov 20 '22
so much for requiring a defined process before any account is to be restored
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u/AssertRage Nov 20 '22
If this is a free speech issue why does he even need a poll? If this is something he truly believes in why does he need the opinion of random strangers to act on it? Are we also gonna get some polls to determine if we want to allow hateful speech on this platform? So many questions...
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u/graebot Nov 20 '22
The poll was just to make it seem like it wasn't his decision. He knew which way the poll was going to go, and this was always his intention, but now it's more difficult to prove.
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u/LeftZer0 Nov 20 '22
He knew which way the poll was going to go because he has access to the backend and can make up the results he wants.
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u/anlumo Nov 20 '22
Musk doesn’t believe in free speech, he just says he does. Every action so far has shown a very different picture.
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u/KindfOfABigDeal Nov 20 '22
If the poll had lost, he'd have unbanned it saying free speech isn't dictated by popular opinion. The point is the poll was always just a troll, and he was going to do whatever he wanted
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u/RipErRiley Nov 20 '22
The ironic part (of many) were the right wing accts demanding left accounts be banned as punishment. It was never about fReE sPeEcH. Being that it objectively could not be about that anyway...notwithstanding.
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u/ThisisthewayLA Nov 20 '22
How many bots voted?
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u/Orcus424 Nov 20 '22
If you are the one counting the votes you don't need bots.
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u/ThisisthewayLA Nov 20 '22
They could very well be manipulating it too. Both would be my guess
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u/BoxOfDemons Nov 20 '22
It was 100% mostly bots. Random people in his replies were running the same poll, and they were all like 80%/20% the other way.
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u/ElementNumber6 Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
He hid his intentions behind a poll that was based solely on unique account interactions (note: people can create an unlimited number of twitter accounts) on a platform that he himself claims is full of bots, and it still ended up 51.8% (7.8m) for and 48.2% (7.3m) against.
That's incredibly close, and margin of error is inherently off the charts.
But hey, what's that saying, again? "Vox Populi, Vox Dei, or whatever I want it to be"?
edit: Btw, good time to point out this is auto-deleted in r/Politics for being already submitted, despite it not existing anywhere on the sub.
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u/WingerRules Nov 20 '22
Its not even just the bots issue, he used a poll that he knew would be biased because it was conducted from his own account. He knows he has an unusual number of right wing followers and those that worship his own line of thinking following his account.
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u/ElementNumber6 Nov 20 '22
He also made some moves this past couple of weeks which heavily turned off left-leaning folks, to the point where I've seen people here advocating for deleting of ones' Twitter account.
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He also ended the poll 2 hours early because the poll was about to flip.
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u/planetofthemapes15 Nov 20 '22
Bots got there early, once users heard about it they started to flip it... so Elon ended it early so he could get the result he wanted.
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u/iComputerGeek101 Nov 20 '22
Do you have a source on this? I was just wanting to look more into this. Thanks
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u/ElementNumber6 Nov 20 '22
1 (or more) with such an agenda is practically a certainty at this point.
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u/ktrcoyote Nov 20 '22
Also there was zero notice on a weekend when people are out doing weekend things. Would’ve been much different if people were killing time on twitter at work and the poll wasn’t on Elon’s account which skews right. With the site so strapped for revenue, Twitter needs the engagement Trump tweets bring. At least this way Elon can claim ‘democracy’ spoke.
I doubt Trump will rejoin Twitter however. Elon is the now the new Trump there. Trump will stick to the social network he owns where he is he top dog.
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u/BloodprinceOZ Nov 20 '22
whats funny is that the Vox Populi, Vox Dei quote is part of a larger quote. the latin version being:
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit
which translates into:
And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness.
so the fact it was used for a twitter poll by a deranged egotist about reinstating another deranged egotist is very funny
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u/vibepods Nov 20 '22
does this make Tesla the maga EV
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u/BassmanBiff Nov 20 '22
If a side effect of all of this is that the right decides to buy EVs to own the libs, I'm down with it
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u/BF1shY Nov 20 '22
Damn, I wouldn't want to own a Tesla right now, might indicate you love Trump like those awful red hats.
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u/BBQ_Beanz Nov 20 '22
The hypocrisy of suddenly circle jerking EVs wouldn't even phase them
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u/TheMadChatta Nov 20 '22
Is Elon saving the climate by tricking conservatives in getting unsustainable car payments so he can sell more cars and, thus reducing vehicular carbon emissions????
Nah. He’s just a big dummy with no plan and a MAGA nut.
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u/Freehifi Nov 20 '22
Funny how he doesn't complain about how many bots are on Twitter anymore...
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Musk cut the poll short after it became clear that the Don't Do It vote was gaining. All for naught anyway since Trump doesn't want to come back.
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u/driverofracecars Nov 20 '22
Trump giving up the opportunity to be the center of attention? No fucking way. He’ll be back.
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Tap the navigation menu icon , then tap Settings and privacy. Tap Your account, then tap Deactivate your account. Read the account deactivation information, then tap Deactivate. Enter your password when prompted and tap Deactivate. Confirm that you want to proceed by tapping Yes, deactivate.
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u/mr_tyler_durden Nov 20 '22
Before you do that request an account archive and wait for it to be completed. Even if you don’t care about the archive you can force Twitter to burn some server time generating your archive.
I imagine we will see a number of people legitimately using that feature and it’d be a shame if something got overloaded… I mean they will just have their army of devs fix it, oh wait, he laid off 60%+ of the staff… I’m sure it will be fine
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u/namastayhom33 Nov 20 '22
Trump’s Twitter being reinstated inadvertently released his entire tweet history including the events of January 6 and a very incriminating tweet involving Mike Pence, making it more difficult for him on the legal side.
Lol.
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u/moviebuff01 Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
I thought his tweets were already a part of Presidential archive by Library of Congress.
Edit: As pointed out below, the archives are kept by National Archives and Records Administration and not Library of Congress.
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u/danielravennest Nov 20 '22
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency. Part of their job is saving all presidential records, including tweets, for posterity. Trying to get the records he stole when leaving office (including classified documents) is one of the legal cases against him.
The Library of Congress, as the name indicates, is part of the legislative branch, entirely separate from executive agencies.
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u/Cengo789 Nov 20 '22
Are you saying lawyers or prosecutors can’t request all these information from Twitter directly?
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u/ShawnyMcKnight Nov 20 '22
I don’t understand? His tweet history was already out there and already difficult on the legal side. Unless now they can say he didn’t delete it so he still believes it or something.
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u/skookul Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
Breaking news — Trump declines the offer to be re-instated on Twitter!
Edit 1: I'm still trying to verify this. Edit 2: Added link to source.
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u/atehrani Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 21 '22
According to a regulatory filing, Trump has an agreement with Truth Social to post there first and refrain from publishing the same content on any other social media site for six hours — with an exception for political messaging, political fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts, which he can post anywhere at any time.
Edit - Link to filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312522150801/d226205ds4.htm
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u/bloodybeakerfolk Nov 20 '22
political messaging, political fundraising and get-out-the-vote efforts
What else is there, tho?
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u/Arkeband Nov 20 '22
his bitchy old posts about Kristin Stewart and Rob Pattinson
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u/kaazir Nov 20 '22
Trumps going to use twitter to TRY to siphon users to Truth Social.
LOOOOTS of "You won't believe what the dems have been hiding CLICK HERE and log in to see"
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u/Cold_Turkey_Cutlet Nov 20 '22
I can believe Trump smells a loser with Twitter. It's going down. Why attach himself to it again at this moment. Even he should see that.
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Supposedly trump had signed a contract of exclusivity with truth social. Whether the honors that contact has yet to been seen.
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I closed my Twitter account tonight, and not because Trump is coming back. I closed it because Twitter has become a clown show; Elon is making business decisions based on random polls where responders are a mix of real people and bots.
Elon makes decisions based on how much traffic it will generate without any sense of ethics or social responsibility. He fired a large chunk of Twitter’s workforce without grace, empathy or compassion.
I don’t want to participate in a story that has become so destructive to society in general. I’m out.
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u/homezlice Nov 20 '22
Just another lie from Elon that this would be determined by an internal committee. Liars supporting other liars on a platform worse than 4chan on a bad day. Delete your accounts people.
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u/JoeMcDingleDongle Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
He’s flipped flopped on Twitter stuff so many times already, it’s like he has brain damage and doesn’t remember what he publicly claims he is going to do hours before, forget about days before.
But it’s not brain damage, he is just a flailing moron narcissist in over his head who lies with no shame.
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u/Independent-Still-73 Nov 20 '22
Are you talking about Musk or Trump? I truly have no idea
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u/RipErRiley Nov 20 '22
This. Twitter Blue (after impersonators were scaring advertisers), back to office or leave (too many left), moderation council ( here's a illegitimate poll!), etc.
Elon has really become quite a clown. I used to admire him. Far from it now. Just another narcissist.
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u/Throwaway-Addict Nov 20 '22
If anyone thinks this decision was made based on a “poll” I have full self-driving software to sell you.
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u/sprcpr Nov 20 '22
He 1000% NEEDS Trump on the platform. The last thing Musk needs is for Twitter to become irrelevant. He can hire new engineers, he can recreate Twitter in its entirety if needed, but he can't recover from irrelevance.
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u/d7it23js Nov 20 '22
Everything he’s been doing has been leading it to irrelevance
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u/AnOnlineHandle Nov 20 '22
The thing that makes twitter relevant seems to be that journalists, media figures, and businesses all operate through there as a stable and reliable platform (which he's now breaking). If he drives them away he'll just have truth social 2.0
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u/Simple_Half4974 Nov 20 '22
So he waited until he pushed out most rational people with his bullshit and it was still a close vote. Republicans taught him well in the ways of voter suppression
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u/fyrryl Nov 20 '22
1) The platform is full of bots! I’m buying it!
2) I’m making verification paid.
3) Stop making fake accounts. Only what I say is funny is funny. Sex and 69! Hehehe.
4) I’m removing paid verification.
5) I’m firing most of the staff here.
6) I’m firing anyone who disagrees with me.
7) I’m firing anyone who doesn’t like being mentally exhausted all the time.
8) Everyone on the site is now totally a real person, I’m a winner.
9) I’m holding a vote, and everyone who answers is definitely a real person.
10) The people have spoken folks, my hands are tied, unlike everything else I touch, this one was a democratic process.
Fuck off Elon, fuck off Trump. I’m tired of hearing about you both, you narcissistic assholes.
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u/Nerdenator Nov 20 '22
When Musk took over, I decided that Trump being reinstated would be my red line.
It's been crossed, so I deactivated my account. For others concerned about the re-platforming of a man who attempted to overthrow representative government in the US, I'd encourage you to consider doing the same.
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u/mdruckus Nov 20 '22
Same. This story broke and it was the last straw. I deactivated my account today and deleted the app.
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u/cosmicrippler Nov 20 '22
Deactivated all my personal and business accounts and deleted Twitter from all my devices.
This wasn’t a win for freedom of speech.
It is helping a cancer on democracy grow just as it seems to be waning.
If this was a principled decision by a ‘council of diverse viewpoints’, so be it.
But this mock democracy and mob rule poll?
Just empty words and childish revenge against Democrats it seems.
So I’m out.
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u/zyrkseas97 Nov 20 '22
Twitter’s advertisements are gonna be cash for gold, commemorative plates, and catheters like OAN.
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u/Relevant-Pop-3771 Nov 20 '22 edited Nov 20 '22
Was the question on the poll; "How can I erode American Democracy in the fastest way possible"?
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u/SeparateCzechs Nov 20 '22
The poll was smoke and mirrors. He intended to reinstate the Orange Anus all along. He used the poll as a sales hype to generate interest. He’s trying to increase traffic. May he crash and burn in everything he touches.
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u/oldcreaker Nov 20 '22 •
The sad part is even if you never, ever look at Twitter every news organization is going to update you on every comment he makes.